Music 2025

[Buckeye Randy]

The year is half over, here is my list so far...

Flash - Frankie and the Studs 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMlX1ms3v8w
I Hate Myself - The Darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4I7WBWSs2I
Smash It Like Belushi - Green Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FimVYEK7xPw
Tombstone Town – Dorothy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DoUioC7r1A
Glorious, Glorious - Connor Liam Byrne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3aFtO8B5M0
Can Ya Handle The Heat - Samantha Fish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNsGGAhP5xw
What A Good Boy – Sorrows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H5kJrh-QQM
Deadstick - King Gizzard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7t2FL1SRaE
Satin Doll - Nico Bones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-VJxt9ESV0
So Holy – Soraia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDY85e1uS74
King Of Kingston – Ratbag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIAV24ilawQ
Aching and Breaking – Fashion Victims
Rock City Nights – Deep Sea Camels
Hooked - Franz Ferdinand
Maggie Went Back To Mineola – Jesse Dayton
Johnny – The States
United – The Bouncing Souls
Growth Sux – Cheekface
Half A Lifetime – My Morning Jacket
If It Wasn't For Ray – Van Morrison
MC Sucka DJ – Electric Six
A Little Bit Of Light Banter – Sparks
She's The Shit – Teenage Bottlerocket
Chimera – The Alarm

There's another 40 if people are interested...

[Buckeye Randy]

...and here is the rest of the list.  I try to only include one song per artist and not get swept up with the instant familiarity of cover versions.

Transistor Radio Childhood – Ricky Byrd
Jim And Jack And Hank – Alan Jackson
I Am Here – Sahaji
God Bless Honking Clover – Creeping Jean
Mess With My Emotions – Spiders
Better Than You – Ryan Roxie
If You're Gonna Swing – Ace Monroe
Savoir Faire – Black Eyed Sons
Babygirl - The Black Keys
Mr. Tap n'Go – Masters Of Reality
Mine Me Mine – Laura Jane Grace
Street Life – Gyasi
Love Will Probably Kill Me Before Cigarettes And Wine – Luke Spiller
Gremlins Of Funk – Funkeestas
Everyday Is Saturday Night – Danko Jones
Should Have Seen It Coming – Real Sickies
Big Change – Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts
Praise The Loud – Anthony Gomes
Chp Out – The Morning Doves
On The Brink – Brad Marino
Nonstop Radio – The Vapors
Alfie – The Living End
Cold Like This – The Rumjacks
Walk The Walk – The Baboon Show
Borrow My Boots – Tami Neilson
We Are, We Are – Willie Nile
The Phantom Brides Of 13 Curves – The Joeys
Automobile – The Cold Stares
Up n Down – Jeremy & The Harlequins
No Place Like Home – Badflower
Black Mamba – Alice Cooper
S.O.S. – Private Function
Nothing Tastes As Good As It Feels – Lambrini Girls
Love Attack – Monster Truck
Who'll Stand With Us – Dropkick Murphys
Bloodshot Baby – Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown
Elanor Rigby – The Skids
Avaline – The Parkways
One Go Round – Robin Trower
Gok Wan – Panic Shack

Honestly, I think the year is sounding pretty good with great music from long time artists and new ones as well.

[Buckeye Randy]

Here's a new one that makes me tap my foot.

These guys are back?  Wow!  They got grouped in with glam metal but they were always more like Hanoi Rocks or NY Dolls.

[Buckeye Randy]

Fun cover of a Ian Hunter song.  The guitar work is pretty faithful to Mick Ronson which seems to be the norm.  Great White (Once Bitten) and Presidents Of The Universe (Cleveland Rocks) didn't mess much with the Ronson solos when covering Ian Hunter.

[Buckeye Randy]

The Black Keys dropped their new album today, "No Rain, No Flowers".  It seems OK after two listens but not sure if I'll ever revisit the whole album again after today.  There are certainly a few good songs.

Judging this as a new release is difficult because five of the eleven tracks have already been available.

[Buckeye Randy]

High Life by The Shys

I'm a sucker for horns on a Monday!

[Saulaac]

Lettuce - "Ghost of Jupiter"

Off their live album "Lettuce with the Colorado Symphony". The percussion is great but they could have added some timpani on those two-note "bam bam" phrases.

EDIT: At 1:46, the B minor to A minor section came to a conclusion, and I was kinda hoping they would move into a different key in a fusion-like spirit. But they decided to stick to the B minor tonic in pure funk style. Can't fault 'em for the funkiness.

[Buckeye Randy]

Margo Price dances on the fringe of rock.  The music from this song sounds like it could have been a backing track from Mott The Hoople's first album.  It is duly noted that Margo Price and Ian Hunter have a different vocal delivery!

[Buckeye Randy]

Videos by this band are little cinematic gems.  OK, somebody explain this to me, I don't get it.

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The Living End have a new album today, "I Only Trust Rock n Roll".  This is the Aussie band's 9th album since 1998 and first in seven years.  I was early on with this band and always like to check their new releases though nothing has come very close to topping to "Roll On" (2000).

Here is the gold standard from their debut in 1998!

[Buckeye Randy]

Here is another release today and this is the debut by The Cords.  Sign me-up for this collection of nice innocent summer breezes.

[Buckeye Randy]

New one on October 2nd by Split System.  It's classic punk and if you want old school reference think of Stiff Little Fingers, Sham 69 and the Damned.

[Buckeye Randy]

From dreamy to dramatic.  The music unfolds like a theatrical performance, the video is very lame.

[Buckeye Randy]

I was on board with the first album in '77.  Here they are 48 years later kicking ass with their interpretation of rock meeting power pop.